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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Mark Fisher

The Wizard of Oz review – Dorothy follows the yellow brick road from the Lake District

From left, Mia Jerome, Vinnie Monachello, David Kirkbride, Nimi Spiff and Kira Hayes in The Wizard of Oz at the Theatre by the Lake, Keswick.
Off to see the West End … from left, Mia Jerome, Vinnie Monachello, David Kirkbride, Nimi Spiff and Kira Hayes in The Wizard of Oz at the Theatre by the Lake, Keswick. Photograph: Pamela Raith

Most people come to Keswick for the mountains and the cream cakes. For 13-year-old Dorothy (Nimi Spiff), they are the reason she wants to get out. What need for scenery and pink icing when she could be in the hubbub of London?

Grieving for her mother and fantasising about her absent father, she is determined to escape to the capital for Christmas. But a Lake District storm is brewing and, after making a break through the upstairs window of her aunt and uncle’s house, she is propelled along a different route.

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